As the Electric
Universe theory suggests, arc-shaped
geographic segments on other planets
are the result of ion beams cutting
into the surface. Evidence exists
for a similar process on Earth.According to the vast majority of papers published by geologists, and also by
planetary scientists looking into the evolution of other worlds, forces that are
familiar to us all have acted to create the features that we see both on Earth
and in those extraterrestrial environments. Earth has rain that is supposed to
have formed the river valleys and filled the oceans over millions of years, so
on Titan, for example, there must also be some kind of liquid and long periods
of time to explain the perceived existence of channels and basins in a place
where the temperature is hardly greater than space itself.
The surface appearance of Jupiter's moon Europa is said to be the result of ice
rafting and compression-cracking because the Arctic Ocean forms similar
structures during its winter freeze. From that apparent similarity the theory of
a Europan ocean has been educed, which has resulted in more theories about how
liquid water can exist in a climate of less than minus 200º C. That line of
thinking led to the theory of tidal "kneading" on Europa and from there to a
decoupled crust of surface ice that obeys the mechanical laws of convection,
expansion and subduction whenever its morphological development is discussed.
The Electric Universe theory indicates that we should work backwards from the
way that conventional geological thinking would have us do. Electricity
permeates space and acts with great force over long distances. Previous Picture
of the Day articles about the aforementioned moons Titan and Europa have
described another mechanism for producing what satellite imagery has revealed
and that is electrical etching.
Therefore, rather than using Earth as a model for the Solar System and looking
for questions to answer out there based on what we observe down here, we should
use the Solar System as a model for Earth. If electric discharge machining was
so violently involved with how the moons are shaped, then it might also have
acted to shape the Earth.
The Sea of Japan is another example of geography on Earth that is not easy to
explain through standard models of planetary evolution. It is known as a
"back-arc basin" according to the theory of plate tectonics. Continents slowly
add new crust onto their margins when all kinds of subduction zone collisions
take place. The
western United States is supposed to have grown by a third or more along its
boundary when it accreted many of these "exotic terranes" which traveled 3000
kilometers or more to build California and Nevada (probably parts of Alaska and
Utah as well).
Lesser continental collisions do not necessarily cause terrane accretion, but
they assemble complex crustal formations by crushing together backarc basins and
magmatic arcs over eons of time. The Sea of Japan is said to be an example
of what happens when one of the basins becomes inverted and forms an arc-shaped
mountainous island chain. For more information about the theory of plate
tectonics and how the continents were created see the
Colorado Department of Geology home page.
There are characteristics that point to electric discharge machining as a
possible origin for the Sea of Japan. The Galileo spacecraft sent back images of
giant looping "fractures" on Europa called "flexi" that, in the case of
Sidon Flexus, extend for over 1600 kilometers. The island chains that make
up Japan and the Philippine archipelago merge with seamounts and other
underwater ridges further to the north and south so that they
sketch out a cycloid just like the cycloid rilles on Europa. In fact, the
underwater component bifurcates and continues to exhibit sine wave structure
until it dead ends just north of Australia.
There are dual-ridge faults along the eastern edge of the Japanese coast that
plunge thousands of meters deep into the crust. The same kind of "faulting" was
also discovered on Europa (and now on Saturn's moon Enceladus), leaving Electric
Universe theorists referring to them as "lightning
trenches" cut into the surface rather than fractures from internal
dynamics. Perhaps the deep ocean trenches on Earth were also sculpted by
external lightning and not by cracks and stresses coming from inside the planet.
Many Picture of the Day
expositions have pointed to cosmic forces combining with the
electric fields of Earth so that massive clouds of ionized
plasma swept across the terrestrial lithosphere. Those ion
storms cut canyons, raised continents, leveled mountains and
vaporized billions of tons of rock and water – along with
their attendant biota. The power in those explosive events
could easily have made the Sea of Japan at the same time it
was forming the
Mountains of Patagonia, the
Zagros Mountains or the
Scandinavian Peninsula.
By Stephen Smith
